Tuesday, 29 December 2015

That's a few people who have completed Umbral Abyss now. The longest
play length was around 72 hours! I nearly fell off my chair!

Some comments we have received:

"I wanted to tell you that I finished 'The Umbral Abyss' . What a GREAT Campaign !!!!"

"I really had a blast playing through it. And the history feats you can
get and the game 'remembering' them is great; it gives you the feeling
to be really 'in' the game, not only playing it ."

"The scene
where [SPOILER] decided to stay behind was really epic and sad at the
same time (and all those cut scenes, the music, the surroundings, the
love for the details) And then the ending cliffhanger (damn you!)"

Nobody has told me what the next campaign is called yet. So no news on the finale yet! Play to the end and you will find out! As stated some time ago, there will be no news until someone enlightens us!

The Untold Commentaries series will continue shortly and in the new year, we will be putting together an update package, containing some changes and additions which would not be possible via patches. These updates should also crush some of the more repetitive problems being reported.

The holiday season is the perfect time to get some sessions into games. So why not give the series a try?

Friday, 18 December 2015

A series of videos which take a closer look at Untold Tales of
Tolkien: The Umbral Abyss - A community created campaign for Neverwinter
Nights 2. The Untold Tales series of modules and campaigns are story
driven, action adventure roleplaying games, set in our adaptation of
Tolkien's Middle Earth.

Thursday, 17 December 2015

A series of
videos which take a closer look at Untold Tales of Tolkien: The Umbral
Abyss - A community created campaign for Neverwinter Nights 2. The
Untold Tales series of modules and campaigns are story driven, action
adventure roleplaying games, set in our adaptation of Tolkien's Middle
Earth.

In this episode, we take a closer look at some activity
which can be of great use to you later on in the story. We also recover
our equipment from the enemy.
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Wednesday, 16 December 2015

Fixed an issue preventing the "Faenwen" quest from being
completed if the player had already visited the Wood Elves without
Faenwen in the party. Players who had this issue BEFORE this patch will
need to speak to Galdor to make the correct conversation launch. Players
who have not experienced this problem will be able to trigger the scene
automatically, as intended.

Thursday, 10 December 2015

It is fast approaching 3 weeks since the release of The Umbral Abyss and all seems to be going well. What problems and glitches that have come our way have been handled and feedback thus far has been positive and encouraging. I am paying very close attention to what players have to say and show me. I'm always on the lookout for opportunities to improve my work and to hone the campaign in future updates. No news of anyone completing the campaign thus far. Well, it is rather big...

My Untold Commentaries series is now 4 episodes in and I have quite enjoyed making it. So I will continue and at some point, take a look in the toolset too, for budding builders out there.

For videos in general, there are quite a growing selection of options at present:

Sunday, 6 December 2015

I have started to put together a series of video footage looking behind the scenes of selected parts of The Umbral Abyss campaign. This is not a Let's Play, but if you want to know more about some of the decision making or gain additional insight into the campaign, it may be worth a watch.

I also open the floor to any questions which I may be able to answer within the videos. If the first few are not a complete disaster, I will continue making more.

Wednesday, 2 December 2015

So we have reached 4 patches now, as a few other issues raise their ugly heads. Thankfully, all quickly resolved and not requiring players to restart their game.

Patch 1.3* Fixed an issue causing the defenders of Talath Harroch to attack each other and the players party.* Fixed an issue with a cut scene, added some fail safes to ensure launch,* Updated the "Faenwen" campaign journal entry with a gentle suggestion!

Patch 1.4* TLK file updated to resolve some history feats with missing names and descriptions

Ok, so patch 1.4 was a little embarrassing. It appears that the launch copy of the tlk was an old in-progress copy. Never mind, players will now have the names and descriptions of their hard-earned history feats showing.

In more exciting news, Umbral Abyss is now the subject of a new Let's Play series by AhTravesty. He previously ran a Let's Play of Indanthrine Prince in addition to a Let's Play of the demo version of Umbral Abyss Chapter 1. This new Let's Play picks up where he left off. The first 5 videos have been very entertaining and insightful as always, helping us to track down problems and note where we have done well and maybe not so well. AhTravesty has a wide selection of NWN2 Let's plays and I cannot recommend them more highly to builders and players alike.